khendar wrote:Just curious, I see a lot of people talking about Strava. What are the benefits of Strava over something like Endomondo or MapMyRide ? Is it just more detailed information ? Larger community ?

I use it as a data backup to my garmin stats.Also it allows me to follow others on the forum, and compare rides and compete , with some.Interesting programme, i enjoy it and use it every day.Further, you can compete for pb's against your own times in the various segments created on rides.Or you can create your own segments.It also gives age breakdowns for the various age groups etc.Tim

khendar wrote:Just curious, I see a lot of people talking about Strava. What are the benefits of Strava over something like Endomondo or MapMyRide ? Is it just more detailed information ? Larger community ?

I use it as a data backup to my garmin stats.Also it allows me to follow others on the forum, and compare rides and compete , with some.Interesting programme, i enjoy it and use it every day.Further, you can compete for pb's against your own times in the various segments created on rides.Or you can create your own segments.It also gives age breakdowns for the various age groups etc.Tim

Sounds pretty similar to what Endomondo does. The app has a "compete against self" function which gives you verbal updates as to your progress (ie 30 seconds ahead of pace etc). It sounds like Strava has a few more stats and I guess its popular here because its what a lot of people are using so you can compete against other forum members.

The main difference with strava is the known/popular hill climbs are already "segments". So anytime you ride this segment of road, it automatically times you and then you can rate yourself against everyone else on strava who has recorded this climb.

Endomondo is more fully featured but does not link you in with the rest of the community AFAIK. And I also think it doesn't automatically pull a segment out of a bigger ride.

I don't know about those other sites but strava is a sort of social networking, automated activity analysis website. Anyone, including free members, can define "segments" (sections of road) and the site automatically scans through everyone's activities retrospectively, and in the future, to see if they have ridden along that segment, then creates leaderboards that can be filtered by sex and weight, or you can just have a look at your own times. You can follow people, leave comments for them, compete, make friends. It's better than e.g. cycle2max because you don't have to time yourself manually over your favourite climbs or circuits - the data is extracted automatically for you whenever you upload a ride. There are KOM and QOM icons for the fastest riders on each segment, and icons to tell you if you achieve Personal Bests. You can make segments private so that only your rides are included in them, and there are privacy settings to prevent the bread crumb trail from starting and ending at your front door.

Haha...signed up,thanks... dumb time to do it though...been sick with a cold for a week but I am finally getting over it.Then it dumped 20cm of snow yesterday, which then melted a bit,then the temp went to minus 5 and turned everything to ice... now they are saying -15c in a few days and for the next 10 days at least with -5 max!... don't think I will be logging many strava k's before my premium runs out!.

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